Global Crisis, National Renewal

A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States

By: Charles Hugh Smith

Narrated by: Russell Newton

National security is not just military force. In an age of scarcity, security is a degrowth economy of energy independence, social cohesion, and civic virtue.

All nations, including the United States, face systemic crises that are reinforcing each other at an explosive point in history. The threats to the republic are unprecedented, but the status quo is incapable of understanding that conventional responses are an accelerant of fatal synergies: The status quo is now the problem rather than the solution.

These novel crises demand an entirely new grand strategy. The emergence of solutions is not preordained; the collapse of the state is also a possibility, though far from an ideal one.

The global crisis offers an opportunity to redraw America’s grand strategy from the ground up. Should we fail to make full use of this opportunity, the United States will fail, along with all the other nation-states that are incapable of redefining the problems so that new solutions become possible.

This revolutionary grand strategy will be the deciding factor between nation-states that fail and the few (if any) that will not just survive, but actually thrive.

©2021 Charles Hugh Smith (P)2022 SpokenTome.Media

A Vision of the Future

A vision for the deglobalized future along with what brought us here, a good companion to Peter Zeihan's book "The End of the world is just the beginning".

Interesting perspective

I enjoyed the book. There is a lot to digest and consider. Although I don't disagree with the premise of the hypothesis, it will be difficult to pull 320 million people together to collaborate on the general welfare of the United States. America is too tribal.